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We have a lot to learn from teachers’ unions | Opinion

Teachers and their unions have been setting an example for how to protect members while also fulfilling their obligations to educate our kids.

Teachers stand together as they protest the reopening of schools without an adequate plan. Philadelphia teachers supported by the union the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers and the American Federation of Teachers gathered outside of Samuel Gompers Elementary at 57th Street and Wynnefield Avenue on Monday, Feb. 8, 2021, to protest the reopening of schools during the COVID-19 pandemic with what are seen as inadequate safety procedures.
Teachers stand together as they protest the reopening of schools without an adequate plan. Philadelphia teachers supported by the union the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers and the American Federation of Teachers gathered outside of Samuel Gompers Elementary at 57th Street and Wynnefield Avenue on Monday, Feb. 8, 2021, to protest the reopening of schools during the COVID-19 pandemic with what are seen as inadequate safety procedures.Read moreALEJANDRO A. ALVAREZ / Staff Photographer
    by Akira Drake Rodriguez and Erika Kitzmiller, For The Inquirer
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